Blizzard used the best soluations for all this crap in cataclysm ptr.
Basicly, the item didn't give any stats at all too your toon if this was on the tooltip. It was great!
I don't know why they decided to scrap this, it would solve alot of issues.
Maybe the machanic was too hard to maintain or doubled the designers work.

I guess we will never know

I dont have tweet, maybe you can link this to holinka and ask wzup about removing this

They should just downscale the PvE gear to ilvl 496 now, or make them not usable in arena until that happends. Thug cleaves and phdks can have 30-40sec games fits perfect with their cds. Just imagine 4.4k str for 30 sec with gargoyle and unholy frenzy up lol........

This is stupid i dont even know if this is a nerf or a buff to the trinkets.